Bertie, a small dog, with a clever mind tricks a burglar who is not so smart into getting the police’s attention during a robbery.
Discuss words with multiple meanings such a “watch” for a time piece and one who keeps watch. Pair with another dog book for a great text-to-text connection.
I paired this with Chewy Louie [...]
Teaching kids to think while reading is a goal I continue to reinforce all throughout the year. We talk about the text to text, text to self, and text to world connections that are explained fully by Debbie Miller in Reading With Meaning: Teaching Comprehension to the Primary Grades. I would recommend this book to [...]
Start the year off with lots of text-to-self connections for first graders with this fun book.
This is a great book to show kindergarten children text-to-self connections. As you read, stop and ask the students if they are connecting to the ideas of going to school, leaving a pet at home, and also learning new things like the puppy.
Students connect to following their teacher, listening to their teacher, and learning new [...]
Crossing Bok Chitto is by Tim Tingle, a Native American Choctaw Indian and storyteller. This book would be a great one to share during African American History Month.
The story shows the emotion of a family who learns that their mother has been sold. It also touches on the African American Christians who had to go [...]
The story is told from the point of view of the 12 year old main character. His grandmother gives him a riding lawn mower for his birthday.
All of his friends are out of town for the summer so he decides to start a lawn mowing business that gets way out of control very quickly.
I like [...]
Tall Tales is a very serious book that is for the older grade levels, but could be understood by a 5th grader. The story is told from the point of view of the middle child. She tries to keep her father’s problem a secret from her school friends.
The problem that her father has is drinking [...]
In One Potato, Two Potato, the author retells an old folktale from China with an Irish twist.
The old couple in the book are named Mr. and Mrs. O’Grady.A previous book, Two of Everything, by Lily Toy Hong tells the same folktale using Chinese characters.This is an example of a text-to-text connection.
Cause and Effect: Because they [...]
